Dragon Age II Character and Environment Update

There's a pair of new profiles on the Dragon Age II website, one highlighting the soldier NPC Aveline, the second highlighting the area called the Gallows.
Statues of tortured slaves fill the Gallows courtyard, a ghastly memento of Kirkwall's history. The statues are not monuments to the suffering of slaves. Every inch and angle of the courtyard was designed by magisters bent on breaking the spirit of newcomers. Executions here took place daily, sometimes hourly, and corpses were hung from gibbets throughout the yard. New slaves trudging in from the docks saw what awaited them.
As usual, all of the new concept art and screenshots can be found in our image gallery.